For years, animal behavior was explained as instinct or routine survival. New research is expanding that view.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found.

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...

Conservationists warn that increasingly realistic AI-generated wildlife images and videos are spreading misinformation that can provoke fear, panic and hostility toward wild animals. Fake footage ...